Photoshop's Clone Stamp and Healing Brush

The clone stamp and healing brush are two very similar tools. They both manipulate pixels to correct for imperfections in an image such as blemishes, stray hairs, and dust. Small things are easily taken care of with either of these; larger or more complicated things must be removed with the clone stamp.

With the healing brush, all that you need to do is click on what you want “healed” and the program does it for you. The clone stamp allows you to select where you want the replacement pixels to come from so you get more control over the changes. Using the clone stamp can get pretty tedious and is easily messed up, however, it can look very good if done right.

Left is an edited photo without any clone stamping; right is with clone stamping and a different sky added in.